Like the Malay proverb’s call to action, she wants the mountain built little by little (Sedikit-sedikit lama-lama jadi bukit). One is to be found in Thunberg’s Sweden. When this Leader was going to press, 140 bush fires were raging in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Speaking to young climate activists in September last year, Guterres said, if we continued with our present lifestyle, it will cost the world US$2 trillion by 2030. The Thunbergs of the world are hoping that the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) meeting in Madrid, Spain now will, to borrow the words of Guterres, “use it”, not “lose it”.

Source: New Strait Times December 08, 2019 15:56 UTC